Mail-delivering device.



No 827,565. v PATENTED JULY '31, 1906.

P. w. RENNBR.

MAIL DELIVERING DEVIUE. APPLIGATION FILED MAYQ, 1906.

THE mmms PETERS 0a., WASHINGTON, n. c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAIL-DELIVERING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1906.

Application filed May 9, 1906. Serial No. 315,979.

Mail-Delivering Devices, of which the follow ing is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in maildelivery devices; and the invention relates more particularly to adevice carried by a mail-car to deliver mail packages or pouches towayside stations.

The invention has for its object to provide positive and reliable meansfor resiliently supporting a mail-pouch upon the exterior of a carwhereby the pouch can be easily removed from the car while the same isin motion. To this end I provide a mail-pouch with a yoke or strapadapted to be engaged by a gripping-arm carried by a post or standardlocated at a convenient point contiguous to the track over which amail-car travels. In supporting a pouch from a car I use twopart arms,the outer parts or ends of said arms supporting a pouch in a verticalposition in order that it may be caught by the gripping-arm, and topermit of the pouch being easily and quickly removed I resilientlyconnect the outer parts or ends of said arms to the car.

The detail construction of the delivery device will be presentlydescribed and specially claimed, and reference will now be had to thedrawings forming a part of this specification, wherein Figure 1 is aperspective view of a portion of a car equipped with my improved device.Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the supporting-arms. Fig. 3 is afront elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is an elevation of a portion ofmail-pouch constructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 5 is aplan of the gripping-arm as carried by a post or standard.

In the accompanying drawings, I have illustrated a portion of aconventional form of mail-car 1, the one side of the door-frame 2 ofsaid car being equipped with my improved delivery device. 7

In constructing the device I employ two arms 3 and 4, each armconsisting of two parts or sections 5 and 6. The parts or sections 5carry plates 7 7, which are secured to the door-frame 2 of the car 1 bybolts or screws 8 8. The parts or sections 6 6 are ivotally connected tothe parts 5 5, as at 9 9, and are provided with curved ends 10 10, thecurved end of the arm 3 extending upwardly, while the curved end of thearm 4 extends downwardly, the object of which will presently appear.

The parts or sections 6 6 of each arm are provided with side lugs 11 11,to which coiled springs 12 12 are connected, said springs being securedto the car 1 at each side of the plates 7 7, The springs 12 12 of thearm 3 are fastened to the car slightly above the plate 7 to maintain thearm 3, especially the part or section 6 thereof, in an elevated orslightly-raiscd position, while the springs 12 12 of the arm 4 arefastened slightly below said arm and tend to pull downwardly'upon thepart or section 6 of said arm. The springs 12 12 also serve to maintainthe pivoted parts or sections 6 6 in alinement with the parts orsections 5 5 of each arm. 7

The mail-pouches used in connection with the delivery device have theirends 14 14 provided with straps 15 15, carrying links 16 16. The linksengage over the curved ends 1.0 10 of the arms 3 and 4 and maintainthepouch 17 in a vertical position between said arms. The straps 15 15support a metallic yoke or strap 18, extending outwardly in a plane.

common to the arms 3 and 4.

A post or standard 19 is erected in close proximity to the track (notshown) over which the car 1 travels, and said post is provided with aprotruding gripping-arm 20, having a hook-shaped end 21 to engage theyoke or strap 18 and remove the pouch 17 from the arms 3 and 4.

Since the parts or sections 6 6 of the arms 3 and 4 are pivotallyconnected to the parts or sections 5 5, the parts or sections 6 6can bepulled inwardly toward the center of the door-frame 2 to permit of thepouch 17 being easily placed in engagement with the arms 3 and 4, andupon being released they will assume their normal position, supportingthe pouch 17 in a position at right angles to the car 1.

As the car 1 travels toward the post or standard 19 the yoke or strap 18iscarried in a plane alining with the hook-shaped end 21 of the arm 20,and as the yoke or strap engages said arm the pouch 17 is safely removedfrom the arms 3 and 4.

The pivoted parts or sections 6 6 of the arms 3 and 4 swing in a reversedirection to that Whi ch the car travels and permits of the pouch 17being easily and quickly removed Without injuring the pouch 17 or thearms 3 and 4.

The strap or yoke 18 serves as a handle or grip for the pouch 17 Whennot supported by the arms 3 and 4. The yoke 18, arms 3, 4, and 20 areconstructed of strong and durable 1 metal to Withstand the rough usageto Which they are subjected.

. engage said yoke,

a yoke carried by said pouch, a hook-shaped armcarried by said standardand adapted to substantially as described.

2. The combination With a car, and a mail pouch, of two-part armssecured to said car, springs connecting the outer sections of said armsto the car, means for suspending said pouch from the outer ends of saidouter sec tions of the arms, and a yoke carried by said 1 pouch andadapted to be engaged by a device What I claim, and desire to secure byLetsupported adjacent to the track upon which ters Patent, is

1. In a mail-delivery device, the combinathe car travels.

In testimony WhBIGO'l I affix my signature tion With a car, amail-pouch, and a standard in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

located contiguous to the path of travel of said car, of tWopart armscarried by said car, l the outer parts of said arms being resilientlyconnected to said car to support said pouch,

FREDERICK W. RENNER. Witnesses:

CI-IAs. UI-ILINGER, ANTEs NOLF.

